A Dark Muse Quotes

“In 1593, soon after Marlowe’s murder, a troop of English actors brought a production of the Tragical History of Doctor Faustus to Germany. Through some metamorphosis, the tragedy became a comedy, and the comedy was then transformed into a puppet show. It was more than likely in this form that the young Goethe first came upon what would become his most famous work.”
― Gary Lachman, A Dark Muse: A History of the Occult

“...Newspapers, popular fiction, and magazines churned out words by the million, and the worn coins of everyday speech were less and less able to communicate anything more than the most commonplace meanings....”
― Lachman Gary Larkin Steve, The Dedalus Book of the Occult: A Dark Muse